Speaker: Embrace Identity for Grad School Success

Finding your motivation and working hard are key to succeeding in graduate school and in life, but so, too, is staying true to yourself, shared Erika Tatiana Camacho, Ph.D. '03, during the Summer Success Symposium on Aug. 19.

Erika Tatiana Camacho gives the Summer Success Symposium alumni keynote

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Erika Tatiana Camacho, Ph.D. '03, gives the alumni keynote during the 2025 Summer Success Symposium, an opportunity for research graduate students.

Camacho, the Berriozábal Endowed Chair of Mathematics and professor of mathematics and neuroscience, developmental and regenerative biology at the University of Texas at San Antonio gave the alumni keynote, titled, "From East L.A. to the Ivory Tower - A Mestiza's Story of Empowerment and Transformation in STEM."

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